Political scientist and media critic

August 03, 2009

VA poll backs Kos result on Obama birth

[Update (6/30/10): Serious questions havebeenraised about the validity of Research 2000's polls. The results discussed below should thus be viewed as potentially suspect until the matter is resolved.]

Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling just reported on Twitter that a new poll his firm conducted finds that only 32% of Virginia Republicans think Obama was born in the US, while 41% think he was not and 27% are not sure. These numbers are even worse than the national results from the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll released on Friday, which found that 28% of Republicans think Obama is not a citizen and 30% are not sure.

Here is a bar chart that combines results from the two polls to compare Virginia Republicans with Republicans and the public nationally (click it for a larger version):

Comments

In spite of the fact that these statistics are, well, shocking, please remember that the base of the Republican party is being stripped down to the most conservative of die-hard conservatives. This means that regardless of which Democrat would be in office, they would hate him (or her) with just as much passion.

And remember that the most shocking statistics are coming out of the south. Is this cloaked racism? At first I did not want to entertain the idea, but when you add up the numbers, the results of the KOS polling from the south, assuming 30% non-white polling, can only mean that 70% of the 70% of whites that were polled in the south either believe the BO is not a citizen or are "not sure". Those are the truly scary numbers.

Must be a real kick in the ass for the dying Republican party to see a black, latte sipping, marxist, leninist, socialist, secret muslim non-citzen win the presidency with 52.87% of the NPV and an electoral landslide :)